My Path Leads to Tibet: The Inspiring Story of How One Young Blind Women Brought Hope to the Blind Children of Tibet
Tenberken, Sabriye
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Book ID : 27634
ISBN-10 : 1-55970-694-5 / 1559706945
ISBN-13 : 978-1-55970-694-0 / 9781559706940
Place
of Publication :
New York
Year
of Publication :
2003
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
viii, 284p., Col. Plts., 21 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
Defying everyone's advice, armed only with her rudimentary knowledge of Chinese and Tibetan, Sabriye Tenberken set out to do something about the appalling condition of the Tibetan blind, who she learned had been abandoned by society and left to die. Traveling on horseback throughout the country, she sought them out, devised a Braille alphabet in Tibetan, equipped her charges with canes for the first time, and set up a school for the blind. Her efforts were crowned with such success that hundreds of young blind Tibetans, instilled with a newfound pride and an education, have now become self-supporting. A tale that will leave no reader unmoved, it demonstrates anew the power of the positive spirit to overcome the most daunting odds.
